[Paraview-developers] general error loading plugins on Cray

[Andy Bauer]

Hi Jean,

Thanks for the investigation and fix. Do you mind sharing your changes to
DynamicLoader.cxx? A VTK gitlab merge request or even just the file itself
would be great. I'd like to make sure that this fix gets into VTK and PV.

Thanks,
Andy

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Favre Jean <jfavre at cscs.ch> wrote:

>
> I'll respond to my own post. Thanks to a great tip from fellow John
> Biddiscombe, we figured out that the DynamicLoader::OpenLibrary() was
> wrongly compiled to be
> {
> return 0;
> }
>
> because of an #if defined() statement checking for
> CRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX_TARGET
>
> Depending on whether your compile with the Cray wrapper, or with g++,
> you'll get a different behavior; the Cray wrapper automatically sets a
> -DCRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX_TARGET
>
> Well, compiling with shared libs, I really should be able to open the
> shared libs objects. I have modified the source code of
> VTK/Utilities/KWSys/vtksys/DynamicLoader.cxx to default to the last case
> called " // 6. Implementation for default UNIX machines."
>
> I am now up and running with PV5.2 on the Cray XC, running EGL.
>
> -----------------
> Jean/CSCS
>
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